taliban
IPA: tˈæɫɪbæn
Root Word: Taliban
noun
- A Deobandi Islamist and largely Pashtun religious political movement founded in Afghanistan in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar, which has governed the country from 1996 to 2001 and since 2021.
- A Taliban militia.
- A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
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Examples of "taliban" in Sentences
- Will Taliban trickle over to Kashmir
- He was an outspoken critic of the Taliban.
- In the taliban and taliban treatment of women article.
- The detainee said he joined the Taliban in retaliation to his family.
- Where is the evidence that the Taliban was responsible for the hijack
- Wasifi returned to Afghanistan in 2001, following the Taliban's ouster.
- Abdul Razzaq said he was a storekeeper and farmer at the time of Taliban.
- A lot of the captives association with the Taliban was completely involuntary.
- I had to fight with 30,000 meagerly trained Taliban fighters possessing rifles.
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